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COLLEGE EXERCISES: 






BY 



FELLOW-COMMONER OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE. 



CAMBRIDGE: --v 

PRINTED BY E. AND J. GOODE, BRIDGE-STREET. 



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orau TSBO-ji Ss, to'Ksio'toi, (rvvr^i^ei xcCKa. 

Menand, 



Of these Exercises I shall say only what is necessary; 
the First was written for the Pitt Scholarship in 1814, 
in Three hours, and was successful. The Second for 
Sir W. Browne's Medal in that year, was unsuccessful. 
The Third written for the same Medal in 1815, was 
also unsuccessful. The Four last written for the 
Classical Medal in 1816, were successful. The 
Theme was done in Four hours, the Three others in 
Two hours each. 



Magd. Coll. 

March 29th, 1816. 



X ET, yet endure, nor murmur, oh, my soul f 
For are not my transgressions great and numberless ? 
Do they not cover thee like rising floods, 
And press thee like a weight of waters down? 
Does not the hand of righteousness afflict thee ? 
And who shall plead against it 1 Who shall say 
To PowV Almighty, thou hast done enough ; 
Or bid his dreadful rod of vengeance stay? 
Wait then with patieace, till the circling hour;* 
Shall bring the time of thy appointed rest, 
And lay thee down to death. The hireling thus 
With labour drudges out the painful day^ 
And often looks with long expecting eyes 
To see the shadows rise, and be dismiss'd. 

Jane Shore. 



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(TxoToir au o^<pV7]j xa* zjovcov rs'Kog <piXoy. 

Jan. 20, 1814 



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Victor iterum fugiens. 



V INCIT amor fugiens, quia se turn cogit amari. 

Omnia fert victrix, dftm fugit, hora fuga. 
Quid vetat, ut miles fugiens quoque vincat, et artem 

Vincendi celet callidus arte sua? 
Nam, cum sit tellus tanquam rota, qui fugit, instat, 
Atque instans alii, quern fugat, ipse fugit. 

May 20, 1814, 



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Vivos ducent de matmore vultus. 



Olim latebris clausa silentibus 
Delubra lucus prsebuit integer ; 
Et ducta de ligno steterunt 
Arte rudi simulacra divum, 

Mox et Penates rusticus artifex 
Truncis colonus finxit agrestibus, 
Vinctumque verbenas coroUis 
Tecta novum coluere numen. 

Quo fonte signi spiritus aerei 
Sensim sacratam traxit originem, 
Auctique doctrina labores 
Egregios aluere nisus ; 



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Yultuque vero prosiliens lapis 
Formae secundis risit honoribus, 
Antiqua dum frontis venustas, 
Ceu Niobe, manet usque saxo. 

Ergo fideli credita marmori 
Spiral parentiim prisca severitas ; 
Et ora, qu8e novit juventus, 
In memori revocantur eere. 

JErgo recursat, siquid amavimus, 
Hesiderata rursus imagine ; 
Fatoque com post i supremo 
Luminibus redeunt sodales. 

Fas intueri martia nomina, 
Quicunque duro crevit in agmine, 
Manesque mirari superbos 
Istiimiaco celebres triumpho : 

Quales solebant praemia nobilis 
Anibire pahnae. Vivit enim lapis, 
Vincetque durando nepotes 
Nota eadem proavis column a ; 



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Quam non senectam fraude brevi potens 
Tabella jactet Zeuxidis, inclyti 

Pictoris ereptos honores 

Phidiaco superante saxo ; 

Veros quod sestus exprimit indolis, 

Idemque vivis luxuriat toris, 
Ut sera jam fari putares 
Jamque Jeves simulare somnos. 

Ecce hie senectae tristis inertia ! 
En moeror exspes lumine lurido, 

Malaeque mareentes Am oris, 

Et genibus pietas reflexis ! 

En labra risu semihiantia ! 

En spes inani pulera superbia, 
Virtusqtie fatorum superstes, 
Rugaque nil metuentis irae ! 

O Diva, prsebens vel lapidi halitum, 
Tuo ipsa digna in marmora conspici, 
Quae fraude praeclara metalli 
Triste viris adimis sepulcrum : 



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Quae jam recedis libera in ultimos 
Orbis Britannos, vincula Graeciae, 
Fractasque dedignata laurus 
Degeneresque animos nepotum ; . 

Te Musa dono carminis exulem 
Salutat exul. Te prece plurima 
Fatigat, ^t calcar secundum 
Mentibus admoveas juventae ; 

Ne forte seo^ni marceat otio 
Probrosa pubes, munera negligena^ 

Honesta, formosamque famam, 

Dedecorum studiosa proles. 

Nam, laude quem tu, Diva, sacraveris, 
Non ille dormit nocte Acherusia, 
Non squalet amplexu sepulcri 
Pulvis iners, sed in aere vivo 

Casu resurgit funeris altior, 

Nee fortuito cespite conditur 

Virtus, neque incestat superbum 
Noraen aqua taciturna Lethe. 

May 20, 1815. 



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Sed nil duicius est bene qnam munita tenere 
Edita doctrina sapientufn templa serena 
Despicere unde qiieas alios. 



Quod in plerisque artibus a consuetudlne pro- 
ficitur, id etiam in yita prsestabit Philosophja. Quae 
quidem nihil aliud esse videtur, nisi de bene et beate 
vivendo perpetua qusedam et seem a cogitandi con- 
suetude. Ilia autem, cum et libera sit, et ab argutiis 
vemota, quo melius percepta fuerit et cognita, eo laudis 
ponderisque plus habitura est. Si enim id proprium 
cuj usque sit artis, ut cum humani generis felicitate 
aliquo saltem pacto, versetur ; quam potius est ilia ars 
efferenda laudibus, quae ipsa nos ad felicitatem comes 
hortatur, neque id per ambages sed recto quodam et 
aperto itinere ! Quae nos quasi e carcere curarum 
molestissimo in lucem et libertatem educit, omnique 
nube a luminibus remota ; ea, quae plerique mirantur, 
pleraque docet contemnenda ; quae vero multis invisa 
fuerint, multa plroponit excolenda. O artem nulli 
comparandam, quam vel sectari magnam habet in se 



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partem felicitatis ; quae, cum omnia, quae bona vi- 
dentur, poUicita sit, multa etiam ipsam praebet inter 
discendi disciplinam ! Hinc nimirum, quodcunque 
Vivendi spatium singulis contigerit, vita fit, non som- 
nium. Hinc seipsum, qui et qualis sit, unicuique 
datur agnoscendi facultas, et quasi ex orco reducem 
se in terras sentiendi. Cetera enim ferme omnia 
brevem capiunt aetatem, Opes dominos, prout fortunae 
visum fuerit, mutare solent. Honores, qua nihil in- 
certius, penes plebem sunt. Forma statim senescit, 
vires vel morbo, vel tempore tandem dilabuntur. 
Quocirca, cum sit maxima apud nos fortunae varietas, 
ita vivendum est, ut nulla res praeter opinionem possit 
accidere. Quod quidem tum multo melius praesta- 
bimus, cum, quae animum spectant, primum tenent in 
animo locum, non ea, quae ad corporis pertinent de- 
licias. Ita enim ingenio debemus affici, ut duo istae 
hominis partes ducis et militis inter se praestent in- 
vicem officia. Quare decantatum illud '■ dum vi- 
vimus, vivamus," in laudem cedat, necesse est, si 
ita, ut decet, vitam istaiti collocemus. Non ut iis 
placet, qui de Epicuri sunt hara, res enim irrequieta 
est voluptas. Ipsa se continue exagitat. Alios in 
perniciem irritat. Alios inflat superbia? Proprium 
enim est omnis fere libidinis sibi tandem displicere, 
et spe incerta certas susciperc molestias. 



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Quod igitur mera ista cogitandi tranqiiilla con- 
suetudo praestare solet, tempore adhibito, id miilto 
melius celeriusque efficietur, doctrina adj utrice. Vita 
enim est brevis, ars longa. Et cum omnia tenere 
non liceat. ea, quae sint dignissima, ceteris praepo- 
nenda. Multas igitur primum ago naturae gratias, 
idque animo prompto et lubenti, quae linguae facultate 
impertita, dedit inter nosmetipsos conferre cogitata ; 
et invicem nobis opitulari. Multas etiam earum 
artium inventor ibus ago gratias, quarum auxilio, 
omnium, qui unquam extiterunt sententias, in nostros 
usus libere licet adhibere. Hinc enim multo facilius 
ad vitam beatam perveniamus necesse est. Praecla- 
rum enim habet felicitatis adjumentum, qui cum 
omnia, ut ante diximus tenere non datur, pauca tamen 
et ea quidem optima animo fuerit complexus. Prae- 
terea, ut in rure et in umbris multa vident pictores, 
quae ceteris non invisa sed neglecta jacent ; ut poetae 
non ignota sed parum cogitata in animum nobis re- 
vocant, sic in omni vitae parte, multa, quae nobis im- 
promptu sunt, oculis apertis quasi transilimus, et turn 
demum cum aliorum ope percepta fuerint, coecitatem 
nostram, quanta fuerit, miramur. 

Altera est laus doctrinae ejus, quae per libros animo 
adhibetur, quod ea monita, quae ab atnicis aure so- 
lemus accipere difficili, blandiori quasi habitu et 



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persona utantur. Omnes enim fere ad suspicionem 
siimus procliviores et ab aliis castigati aegre id pati- 
mur, quasi vel commodi causa factum, vel ingenii 
ostentandi gratia. Neque parvum est, ut ea quse 
diversis temporibus precepta unquam audivimus, in 
libris isto pateant ordine disposita, ut sibi invicem 
leporem quendam et concinnitatis nescio quid im- 
pertiant. Si igitur nulla libris inesset novitas, si 
nihil, nisi et nota et Vetera, non tamen omni sua laude 
idcirco carebunt litersa. Fulcrum enim est si et Vetera 
et nota recte disponantur. Quo in genere non ab- 
surdum mihi facturus esse videor, si quod apud 
Thucydidem de Gylippo traditum est in hoc loco 
protulerim, qui, cumpriore die cum hostibus infeliciter 
decertasset, postridie tamen iisdem copiis, eodem in 
loco, ordine commutato, triumphum reportavit. Prae- 
clare igitur ut in multis aliis, in eo fecit Lucretius, 
cum libros templa esse dixerit. Quid enim est tem- 
plum, nisi, ubi miseris datur ab hostibus perfugium 
et post labores animi tranquillitas, ubi, vitaj, quasi 
naufragi tempe*tatibus, vestimenta suspendimus et 
ab aequore in portum recipimur? Quod igitur per- 
fugium dat corpori sacellum, id animo aegro et labo- 
ranti libri opitulantur. Revocant enim nos ad nos- 
metipsos, et siquid insoeratum evenerit, aliis hoc 
idem accidisse docent, et nihil pati nos, nisi quod 



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omnes passi omnesque passuri sunt. Tempas enim 
sanat segritudinenl ea de causa, quod ignaris redeat 
tranquille cogitandi facultas. Quod idem a libris fit, 
at citius muito multoque firm i us. Tempus enim ig- 
naros sanat, philosophia et morbum et medicinam 
aperit, unde fit, ut redeunte aegritudine redeant pariter 
remedia. E literis etiam facillime intelligitur, quae 
qiiemque persona maxime deceat, quae omnium gra- 
vissima est deliberatio ; e plurimis enim exemplis 
datur eligendi facultas. Quo quidem in genere 
multi turpissime irridentur, neque id, quia prava 
faciunt, sed parum convenientia. 

Nisi igitur Metelli plane fortunam tibi promiseris, 
aut adhibenda est ista, quam dico, literata philosophia, 
aut repudianda felicitas. Cum enim, quae volueris, 
non usque datur obtinendi facultas, videndum est, 
ne luxurientur libidines, quas intra fines coercere 
cordati est viri. Nee vero audiendi sunt ii, qui musis 
semper paiipertatem suam objiciunt. Quid enim te 
extimescimus, paupertas? Nonne totae gentes, neque 
ignobiles te sibi ultro asciverunt? Nonne optimus 
quisque Graecorum idem pauperrimus? Nonne Roma 
tum quam maxime viguit, cum quam maxime careret 
divitiis ? Neque plus lis tribuendum, qui philoso- 
phiae irascuntur, quae nOn omnia simul mala propter 
humanitatis vitium radicitus evellerc potest. Ut 



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enim pastores, cum aestate in umbram confugerint^ 
ubi nullo modo fieri potest, quo minus aliqui saltern 
irrepant radii, minime de isto conqueruntur, sic nihil 
est, cur philosophiee succenseamus non omnes fibras. 
miseriarum prsecidenti. Alterum modo, neque id 
minimum de philosophia gloriabor, quod nos a vulgo 
removeat, neque usitatissima sed optima praeponat 
imitanda. Non enim modo improbitati vulgus iras- 
citur, sed etiam in recte factis ssepe fastidit. Prae- 
clarum igitur illud de Phocione accepimus, qui, cum 
aliquando a plebe collaudatus fuisset '^ quam timeo," 
inquit, "nequid mali forte fecerim." Tanquam enim 
in exercitu fieri solet, ut ducis potius quam militum 
valeat sententia, ut in morbo medicos tantum con- 
sulere oportet, sic nobis in vita optimus quisque pro 
duce et medico constituendus est. 

March 4, 1816. 



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Yes ; Fulvia is like Venus fair; 
Has all her bloom, and shape, and air : 
But still, to perfect every grace, 
She wants — the smile upon her face. 
The crown majestic Juno wore, 
And Cynthia's brow the crescent bore, 
An helmet marked Minerva's mien, 
But smiles distinguish'd Beauty's queen. 
Her train was form'd of smiles and loves. 
Her chariot drawn by gentlest doves ; 
And from her zone, the nymph may find, 
'Tis Beauty's province to be kind. 
Then smile, my fair ; and all whose aim 
Aspires to paint the Cyprian dame, 
Or bid her breathe in living stone, 
Shall take their forms from you alone. 

Shenstone. 



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tuLViA par Veneri, mihi crede, puellula divae, 

Fulvia par habitu, parque colore deae. 
Risus abest, et abest perfectae gratia formse. 

Rideat ; in coelo digna erit ilia loco. 
Tempora praecingat Juno regina corona, 

x^gresti lunam Cynthia fronte gerat. 
Pallas amet galeas. Galeas dum Pallas amabit, 

Risus erit Veneri, nam Venus apta joco. 
lUam, qua graditur, lepidi comitantur amores, 

Mollis avis premitur pulcra columba jugo, 
Zona Tetat rugas, et ne sit rustica virgo. 

Quae pulcra est, nympham non decet esse rudem. 
Sis igitur precibus facilis, mens ignis, et istas, 

Quas simulet pictor, solve lepore genas : 
Quas manus artificis spiranti exponat in aere ; 

Sic referet formae nesciu^ ipse deam, 

March 6, 1816. 



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Ohremylus, who was an old and a good man, and 
withal exceeding poor, being desirous to leave some 
riches to his son, consults the oracle of Apollo upon the 
subject. The oracle bade him follow the first man he 
should see upon his going out of the temple. The person 
he chanced to see was to appearance an old sordid blind 
man, but, upon his following him from place to place, 
he at last found, by his own confession, that he was Plu- 
tus, the God of Riches, and that he was just come out 
of the house of a miser. Plutus further told him, that, 
when he w as a boy, he used to declare, that as soon as 
he came to age, he would distribute wealth to none but 
virtuous and just men ; upon which Jupiter, consider- 
ing the pernicious consequences of such a resolution, 
took his sight away from him, and left him to stroll about 
the world in the blind condition wherein Chremylus 
beheld him. With much ado Chremylus prevailed upon 
him to go to his house, where he met an old woman in 
a tattered raiment, who had been his guest for many 
years, and whose name was Poverty. The old woman 
refusing to turn out so easily as he would have her, 
he threatened to banish her, not only from his own house, 
but out of all Greece, if she made any more words upon 

the matter. 

Sjpecfaior, 



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C/uM Chremylo, et seni et probo Yiro iidemque pau- 

perrimo, aliquid filio divitiarum relinquendum esse 

videretur, de eo quod faciendum est, mittit ad Apol- 

llnem. Quo cum pervenisset, monitus est ab oraculo, 

ut, quem primum perspiceret egiessus e tefnplis, eum 

sequatur. Senem autem, quem vidisse contigit^ 

ccBCum et aspectu sordidum postquam hue et illuc 

conseetatus esset^ tum ille Plutum se esse demum 

agnovit, numen divitiarum, ex avari domo nupeirime 

egressum. Narravit insuper Chremylo Plutus soli- 

tum esse se puerum declarare, ut primum ex adoles- 

centibus egressus fuerit, nemini se nisi viris et probis 

et honestis opes daturum fore ; quo quidem decreto 

a Jove audito, postquam id, quam plenum esset 

malis, intellexisset, \isu ei statim adempto, coecum 

et tanquam a Chremylo conspectum, per omnes 

regiones vagaturum dimisit. Cui cum id aegre per- 

suasisset Chremylus, ut domum suam secum iret, ibi 

vetula^ cuidam in pannata veste occurrit, cui nomen 

erat '' Paupertas," quae multos annos apud eum hos- 

pitium invenerat. Cum autem non ita prompte, ut 

voluit, ex aedibus Chremyli discederet anus, tum 

illi exilium minatus est, neque id modo de sua domo, 

sed tota etiam e Gnecia, nisi iter lubenter et con- 

festim susciperet. 

MircAG, 1816. 



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Athenian Officer. 



We wish to eulogize our forefathers, because they 
were men worthy of this country and their standard, 
who, in battles by land and by sea, always conquer- 
ing in all places adorned this state ; and none of 
those when he saw the enemy ever stopped to count 
them, but his heart was at once for fighting, and if 
perchance anyone fell on his shoulder, he would wipe, 
©ff the dirt, and deny that he had fallen, and fight 
again ; nor would a single officer petition Cleaenetus for 
a public maintenance : But now, if they do not ob- 
tain precedence and a pension they declare they will 
not fight. Now we, for our part, think it right to 
fight like men for our state and the gods of our coun- 
try; and we petition for nothing, only just this, that 
if peace should come, and Ave have a respite from 
our labours, you do not grudge us wearing fine heads 
of hair and scraping our skins clean. 

March S, 1816. 



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British Officer. 



LiET's chaunt the days of good Queen Betty, 
When folks look'd down on actions petty ; 
Lads then were lads, nor wanted bounties, 
A credit to their cloth and counties, 
iVmphibious rogues ! By land and water 
They left the French small scope for laughter, 
Prescribed steel for all diseases, 
^teel opes the pores and quickly eases. 
Some count their foes, as drovers cattle, 
A sort of grace before a battle, 
Now these were poor arithmeticians, 
Nor from the muses held commissions, 
No Cambridge troops, militia local. 
Nor their horse-guards, Parnassus vocal. 
So this they deem'd a paltry shuflle. 
And straight at sight commenced the scuffle. 
Nor, if knocked down would they complain, 
But rise and cut and come again : 
Nor would a single Serjeant- major 
Dun Harry Calvert for half-pay, sir. 



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But now, without their carnal leaven, 
Their K. C. B.'s, and first cuts given, 
Their stars and cluhs^ that root of evil, 
They'll 'see the fighting at the Devil. 
Now we without such idle prattle, 
For church and state will stoutly battle, 
Nor pen we threatening long petitions, 
In peace to better our conditions, 
Give Windsor soap, Macassar oil, 
Let curly locks reward our toil. 
We'll all be beaus and share between us 
The conquests not of Mars but Venus. 



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